Inside the World Eaters' arena, Hades sneezed violently. His hands holding the double axes paused and he shook his head.
[What's wrong, brother?]
Angron, who was standing next to Hades, asked. Although he couldn't fight in high-intensity combat, Angron, who was unable to rest, had no problem teaching Hades how to use the battle axe.
Hades blinked.
"Maybe—someone is scolding me, I'm not sure?"
He rubbed his nose.
"Never mind, let me show you a trick first."
Angron laughed, and then watched as Hades began to catch and throw two axes.
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[When faced with a being that is stronger than you and that you cannot understand, is your only option to surrender and twist him into a god? ]
[Then can you explain their power, kindness, and vision? How can a mortal have such great power? ]
Mortarion took a deep breath, and he drank again.
[Those with great power must be gods? Have you ever seen a dirty existence? ]
The Lord of Death said defiantly,
The Khan coughed.
[Mortarion, what have you seen?]
The Khan's sharp words cut right between the two men's heated fight, and served as a warning to Mortarion - he had gone too far.
Although he hated any of his brothers, Mortarion did not want them to go through what he had gone through. (Except Konrad Curze, Magnus, and Perturabo)
But Mortarion soon realized what the Khan knew, and the fact that there were still rational people present also allowed Mortarion to successfully calm down.
The next curse that Mortarion was about to say slipped out of his mouth immediately, and then he paused, and finally laughed miserably.
I have seen the unimaginable.
Mortarion whispered as he took another sip of his wine and glanced at Lorgar with disdain. In the friendly conversation just now, the Lord of Death had clearly realized that Lorgar was just a pious shell. He was very pious and had a fanatical conversion - but he would never understand his so-called "god".
The gods he spoke of were merely projections of his own visions.
Twisted believer, Mortarion sneered.
[… Unimaginable things,] Mortarion repeated again, holding the bottle, [I am sure I have seen more, even compared to you.]
He looked at Lorgar, and all he saw was the trickster, glowing with psychic power, and Hades, who was silent.
Behind Mortarion, Fulgrim stared at the bottle of wine in Mortarion's hand with a blank face and muttered softly, "I also saw something unimaginable."
The angel beside him smiled gracefully, then took a sip of red wine without changing his expression.
Sanguinius smiled, thinking that perhaps Mortarion had never seen the Warp projection of the "Commander" he mentioned.
Lorgar stared at Mortarion calmly.
[You can't understand me, and I can't understand you. ]
[But I know the truth, He chose me to tell the truth, He is God, our father is God, this is the whole reason why I fight. ]
[He chose me, and I chose Him.]
Mortarion sneered, but this time he said nothing more.
Because he couldn't be sure how far the liar had come.
[Then believe in your God-Emperor—rather than deifying everything around him.]
Lorgar took a deep breath and was about to loudly refute that Mortarion was just a blind man who consciously covered his eyes, but the Lord of Death stood up and strode down the stands.
[I have to go now.]
Only then did Luo Jia realize that the Death Guard team had already gone far away under the stands.
He turned his head to look at his other brothers. Angel was still tasting wine with Fulgrim, who looked a little disheveled, while Khan was still admiring the scenery in the stands like an outsider.
Luo Jia stood up dejectedly and decided to go find Magnus again.
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Sanguinius slowly swirled the wine glass in his hand, and the archangel thought.
The Emperor acquiesced to Lorgar's views and allowed the Word Bearers to spread their religion, even though they had always done so before - but the Emperor and the Empire had always held an ambiguous and derogatory attitude towards it.
Now the Emperor acknowledges it.
The angel looked at the scarlet wine and took a sip.
He was not as radical as Dorn and Guilliman. On his home planet of Baal, Sanguinius had always allowed and even encouraged people to practice the religion he had established.
This was also the condition of his negotiation with the Emperor. The Emperor allowed the people of Baal to maintain their faith, and Sanguinius surrendered to the Empire.
But the Emperor did not discuss this with Horus, and he limited the scope of his preaching to the Word Bearers.
The angel holds her chin in her hand, what does this mean
What about the Warmaster, the Order of Silence, and the Emperor
Something big is going to happen.
Sanguinius thought silently, while most of the brothers were still immersed in the emotions of the announcement of the title of Warmaster.
He shook the cup boredly again, and the angel thought of Mortarion. If the Order of Silence was closer to the Emperor's other plan, then Mortarion, who had a close relationship with the Lord of the Order of Silence, must know something.
Mortarion was pessimistic.
The angel could sense this, the Lord of Death was always on edge—what was he waiting for in fear
And the Emperor's words to Horus, contact the Order of Silence more...
Even the Order of Silence appeared in the burning of the Perfect City. Even though the Khan repeatedly confirmed with Lorgar that the Warp did not exist in this incident, if it really did not exist, why would the Emperor send the Order of Silence
The Order of Silence, the Warp, the Burning of the Perfect City, the God-Emperor, the Emperor's Instructions, the Warmaster, the Vigilance of Mortarion...
The angel lowered his eyes, pondering the last piece of the puzzle.
Finally, he found—
Sanguinius, himself a god in the religion of Baal.
Sanguinius was well aware of the power of faith, both for believers and for those who are believed in.
Faith is powerful in the subspace.
Sanguinius knew this, and like the Khan he knew that the Imperial Truth was a lie, for blasphemy existed within the Warp.
He drank the scarlet wine in the glass in one gulp.
There is a disaster coming, from the Warp.
Sanguinius uttered his judgment with a trembling voice,
If the Order of Silence cannot prevent the catastrophe, if the scientific truth that has blinded people cannot save them - then faith will be the only antidote.
The Emperor is making preparations for both scenarios. The Order of Silence can fight against the psionic species, and faith will be the best tool for mortals to resist the psionic species. But if he is already prepared to make a large number of mortals believe in religion...
Then the angel said,
How much will the empire sacrifice in this catastrophe
Does this include Horus
Yes, but it might be a sequel.
(End of this chapter)